Online Shoppers Willing to Buy, but Security Issues Holding Back Growth
Most online Americans view online shopping as a way to save time and a convenient way to buy products, but most also express discomfort over a key step in online shopping – sending personal or credit...
View ArticleTop 10 Financial Services Online Ad Spenders – January 2008
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Top 10 Marketing Charts of the Month – May 2015
This month’s quick-hit set of top charts includes the following topics: smartphone app download motivations; channels driving calls to businesses; important audience targeting types; email read rates...
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How Much Influence Do Teens Wield Over Their Parents’ Purchase Decisions?
Children are “active decision makers in family economies,” says YouGov in releasing the results of a recent survey examining kids’ influence on their parents’ buying decisions. The survey analyzes...
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US Facebook Advertising Benchmarks, by Industry, in Q1
Source: Salesforce Marketing Cloud [pdf] Notes: Facebook advertising CPMs were highest for the telecommunications ($9.40) industry and lowest for the gaming ($2.76) vertical in Q1, according to data...
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Top-Indexing YouTube Video Categories Among Mothers
Source: Compete Notes: Mothers are avid viewers of YouTube videos, being slightly more likely than the overall internet browsing population to visit YouTube on a monthly basis, according to data from...
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Q2 Search Trends
Mobile represented an estimated 45% of US organic search visits in Q2, steady from Q1, as Google continued to capture the vast majority (89%) of mobile organic search visits, according to the latest...
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How Prevalent is Ad Blocking?
Globally, the number of internet users who use ad blocking software grew by 41% year-over-year in Q2 and reached 198 million in June, according to a recent study [pdf] from Adobe and PageFair, which...
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What Americans Find Most Important in a New Vehicle, by Generation
Source: The Harris Poll Notes: Reliability is the attribute American adults find most important when considering a vehicle, no matter their age, gender or political party. That’s according to a recent...
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Customer Satisfaction With Automobiles Drops to Lowest Point Since 2004
Source: American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) [download page] Notes: Customer satisfaction with automobiles has dropped 3 points this year to an index of 79 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale, marking...
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Which Industries Lead in Consumer Perception?
Source: Gallup Notes: The computer industry enjoys the best reputation with consumers, per Gallup, with 69% having a positive view of it versus just 10% with a negative view. The resultant net rating...
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Gen X Now Reportedly The Largest Generation of Affluents
Among affluents, Gen Xers (34-50) now outnumber Baby Boomers (51-69) for the first time, with the former accounting for 37% of all affluents and the latter 32%, according to Ipsos’ latest annual survey...
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Task and Frequency Factor into Smartphone Owners’ Browser vs. App Decisions
Consumers’ decision to use mobile applications or browsers may boil down in large part to the task at hand, with browsers preferred for research-intensive tasks and apps more commonly used in...
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Top Brands in 2015 Ranked by Customer Loyalty
Source: Brand Keys Notes: Netflix is this year’s brand loyalty leader, rising 11 spots from last year’s results to take the mantle from Amazon, reports Brand Keys in its latest annual loyalty study,...
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Email Deliverability Rate Drops to 79%. How Do Different Industries Fare?
Source: Return Path [download page] Notes: Some 21% of permissioned emails from legitimate senders around the world failed to reach the inbox during the year-long period from May 2014 to April 2015, up...
View ArticleSouth Korea, Delaware Lead World and US in Broadband Connectivity
South Korea again tops the list of countries with the greatest levels of high broadband (greater than 5 Mbps) connectivity in Q2, while Delaware leads US states, according to the latest “State of the...
View ArticleConsumers Reward Cause-Supporting Companies
Despite lean economic times, 78% of US consumers think companies should either maintain or increase their level of financial support for causes and nonprofit organizations, according to research...
View ArticleMen Value Internet over TV, but Sex Trumps Internet
More than two-thirds of men age 18-34 say they cannot live without the internet vs. television, but 74% would rather have sex than surf the web, according to (pdf) a study from Break Media, conducted...
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